Holger Krekel wrote:
Hi Brett,
Brett C. wrote:
Today I got the wheels turning on my masters thesis by getting an adviser. Now I just need a topic. =) The big goal is to do something involving Python for a thesis to be finished by fall of next year (about October) so as to have it done, hopefully published (getting into LL4 would be cool), and ready to be used for doctoral applications come January 2005.
So, anyone have any ideas? The best one that I can think of is optional type-checking. I am fairly open to ideas, though, in almost any area involving language design.
Maybe you have heard of PyPy, a reimplementation of Python in Python. We are employing quite some innovative approaches to language design and implementation and there are certainly a lot of open research areas. See our OSCON 2003 paper
http://codespeak.net/pypy/index.cgi?doc/oscon2003-paper.html
Read a while back. I keep an eye on PyPy from a distance by reading the stuff you guys put out.
or two interesting chapters out of our European Union proposal
http://codespeak.net/pypy/index.cgi?doc/funding/B1.0 http://codespeak.net/pypy/index.cgi?doc/funding/B6.0
I will have a read.
You are welcome to discuss stuff on e.g. the IRC channel #pypy on freenode
Nuts. Guess I can't keep my use of IRC down to PyCon discussions. =)
or on the mailing list
http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
in order to find out, if you'd like to join us and/or do some interesting thesis.
Will do. Thanks, Holger. -Brett